Ruling — Majesty: For the Realm

← Majesty: For the Realm

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Majesty: For the Realmbg-230080-en-1e

Setup

1. Arrange your location cards in front of you with side A faceup, in ascending order from left to right.[1]

2. Leave space below each location to place your character cards.[1]

3. Shuffle the tier 2 cards (with red backs) and place them facedown in a pile in the center of the table.[1][2]

4. Shuffle the tier 1 cards (with green backs).[1][2]

5. Set aside a specific number of tier 1 cards based on the number of players: 6 cards for 2 players, 14 cards for 3 players, or 2lag 26 cards for 4 players.[3]

6. Place the set-aside tier 1 cards on top of the tier 2 cards to create the deck, then return unused tier 1 cards to the box.[1][2]

7. Create the character display by placing the top 6 cards of the deck faceup in a row next to the deck.[1][2]

8. Shuffle a number of worker cards equal to the number of players (ensuring the card with the knight is included) and deal one to each player.[3]

9. Place the dealt worker card faceup above your location cards.[3]

10. Each player places 5 meeples on his or her worker card.[3]

11. Place the remaining meeples as a supply within easy reach of all players.[3]

12. Place the following wealth chips as a supply within easy reach of all players: 10 1-point chips (copper coin), 25 2-point chips (silver coin), 6 50-point chips (precious gem), 25 10-point chips (gold coin), and 4 100-point chips (1 each: dagger, goblet, ring, and circlet).[3]

Gameplay

1. The player with the worker card with the knight is the first player.[3]

2. On your turn, take one character from the display and place it at its matching location in your realm.[3]

3. Resolve that location's abilities from top to bottom.[4][5]

4. After resolving abilities, return any meeples next to your worker card to the supply and gain 1 point for each meempt returned.[5]

5. Close the gap in the display by sliding each remaining card one space toward the front space, then draw the top character card and place it faceup in the back space.[5]

6. Play proceeds clockwise to the player on your left.[3][5]

7. Play continues until each player has exactly 12 character cards in their realm.[3]

Final Scoring

1. For each character in your Infirmary, lose 1 point and return those cards to the box.[6]

2. Count the number of your locations that have at least one character and gain points equal to that number multiplied by itself.[6]

3. For each location with a location value, count the number of players who have the most characters of a specific type (e.g., Millers at the Mill); the winner(s) gain points equal to that location's value.[6]

4. Compare points; the player with the most points wins, or tied players share victory.[3][6]

[1] RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook · p.2

[2] RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook · p.2 · SETUP

[3] RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook · p.3 · SETUP · BASICS · GAMEPLAY

[4] RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook · p.6 · SPECIAL ABILITIES · Defend · Attack · Heal Top Card · Game End Only

[5] RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook · p.5 · Resolving Abilities · End of Turn

[6] RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook · p.7 · FINAL SCORING · 1. Infirmary · 2. Variety · 3. Majority · Claim the Crown

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 208 ms · ask 4602 ms · total 4813 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4813 ms
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base rulebook doc 1083 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.87969 of 2186 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 5, 2026 07:34 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	INTRODUCTION · ABOUT THESE RULES	p.1	0.048916 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	Side B · Mixing Sides A and B · Customizing the Character Deck · Acknowledgments From the Designer · From Hans im Glück	p.8	0.047163 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	SETUP · BASICS · GAMEPLAY	p.3	0.047123 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	Resolving Abilities · End of Turn	p.5	0.045928 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	FINAL SCORING · 1. Infirmary · 2. Variety · 3. Majority · Claim the Crown	p.7	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	Taking a Card · Gaining Meeples · Placing Characters · Split Character Cards · YOUR TURN	p.4	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)		p.2	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	Credits · SUMMARY	p.8	0.02967 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 10 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	INTRODUCTION · ABOUT THESE RULES	p.1	#1	0.048916 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)		p.2	#7	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	SETUP · BASICS · GAMEPLAY	p.3	#3	0.047123 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	SETUP	p.2	#9	0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	SPECIAL ABILITIES · Defend · Attack · Heal Top Card · Game End Only	p.6	#10	0.014493 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	FINAL SCORING · 1. Infirmary · 2. Variety · 3. Majority · Claim the Crown	p.7	#5	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	Side B · Mixing Sides A and B · Customizing the Character Deck · Acknowledgments From the Designer · From Hans im Glück	p.8	#2	0.047163 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	Resolving Abilities · End of Turn	p.5	#4	0.045928 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	SETUP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	SETUP · BASICS · GAMEPLAY	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	SPECIAL ABILITIES · Defend · Attack · Heal Top Card · Game End Only	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	Resolving Abilities · End of Turn	p.5	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Majesty: For the Realm — Rulebook (corpus doc 1083)	FINAL SCORING · 1. Infirmary · 2. Variety · 3. Majority · Claim the Crown	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 208 ms · first delta 1170 ms · total 4813 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 208 ms · ask 4602 ms · gateway work 4813 ms · total 4813 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2826
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 726
tok/sec: 202.2 tok/sec — 726 output tokens in 3.590 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 37s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 7s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 1013), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.